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Vinegar & Rum Bo'Weavil Recordings Weavil-12 CD £10.99 Great set of improvised acoustic guitar face-offs from avant Japanese guitarists Tetuzi Akiyama and free New Zealander Donald McPherson. Various hypnotic strategies cohere to wildly variant effect, with beautiful - almost Fahey-esque - melodies squatted by wayward, Jandek-style string navigations, percussive stops and melancholy clumps of chords. First ever CD from Bo’Weavil too, in deluxe fold-out art card sleeve and limited to 1000 copies. Very beautiful. |
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Brombron 12: Six Strings Korm Plastics KP 3027 CD £9.99 “Korm Plastics is proud to present the eleventh release in the Brombron series. Originally a co-production between Staalplaat and Extrapool, it is now hosted by co-curator Frans de Waard. In the year 2000 Frans de Waard and Extrapool started the Brombron project. Two or more musicians become artists in residence in Extrapool, an arts initiative in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a fully equipped sound recording studio. These artists can work in a certain amount of time on a collaborative project; a project they always wished to do, but didn't have the time or the equipment to realize. For this twetvth installment all the machines were switched off, microphones installed and duets for two acoustic guitars were recorded by Tetuzi Akiyama and Greg Malcolm. Improvising along the way, along set theme's as well as new ones, they have come up with the most unlikely release in the Brombron series thus far. Greg Malcolm has been around for ages performing unusual music in variety of contexts and combinations. His current obsession is solo simultaneously played multiple guitar performances. Tetuzi Akiyama plays the guitar with primitive and practical implications, by adding a desire of his own to the instrument's characteristic nature in minimal and straight method. He delicately and sometimes boldly controls the volume of the sound from micro to macro level, and tries to quantize his physical system.” Korm Plastics |
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The Ancient Balance To Control Death Western Vinyl West-049 CD £10.99 Whole new mode of tongue from Japanese avant guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, with his blues-infused avant guitar moves topped with weird multi-track vocals that give the individual songs the feel of Matthew Valentine’s Spectrasound orbits, Neil Haggerty jams or even a more drug stupor take on Wayne Rogers’ more stripped down blats. Compound alla that with some finger-picked guitar that could almost be Richard Youngs (cut with a Bailey-esque feel for the percussive use of harmonics as well as maracas, harmonica and electronics) and you’ve got yet another confounding chapter in a career that keeps on puzzling. |
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Vinegar & Rum Bo'Weavil Recordings Weavil-12 LP £13.99 Vinyl edition of what was previously a CD, hand-numbered in an edition of 550 copies with wraparound card sleeve and insert: Great set of improvised acoustic guitar face-offs from avant Japanese guitarists Tetuzi Akiyama and free New Zealander Donald McPherson. Various hypnotic strategies cohere to wildly variant effect, with beautiful - almost Fahey-esque - melodies squatted by wayward, Jandek-style string navigations, percussive stops and melancholy clumps of chords. First ever CD from Bo'Weavil too, in deluxe fold-out art card sleeve and limited to 1000 copies. Very beautiful and highly recommended. |
